Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
Brick moulding device
The invention relates to a device for moulding brick
blanks comprising a plurality oE moulding troughs and a casting
device for filling the moulding troughs, said casting device
comprising at least one carrier coupled with a casting
mechanism and adapted to pivot by means of the casting
mechanism between a receiving position and a delivery position.
Such a device is know. Herein the carrier receives
in its receiving position a slice of material, for example,
clay which may be sprinklèd, for example, with sand. During
the turn of the carrier to the delivery position the carrier
holding the slice is turned upside down and in the delivery
position the turned-over slice is delivered by an element of
the casting mechanism striking an abutmen-t. In the known
devices of the kind set forth this abutment is formed by an
expensive, hydraulic damper, whose lifetime is short due to
the heavy shocks to be frequently absorbed.
The casting mechanism of the known device comprises
a parallelogram rod system, one of the four rods being a driven
crank turned reciprocatorily through 90, whilst the carrier
is fastened to a rod, which has to turn through 1~0 and which
performs for this purpose a free relative movement with respect
to the driven rod. As a result the accelerations and decele~
rations of the carrier cannot be satisfactorily controlled so
that the carrier cannot be prevented with certainty from losing
the slice prematurely. In the know device the driven rod is
coupled with a pneumatic ram set for reciprocating the carrier.
The invention has in the first place for its object
to mitigate or to avoid the drawbacks of the heavy shocks at
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the impact of the cas-ting mechanism in the delivery position
by causing the casting mechanism to drive and suide the
carrier in a manner such that when approaching the delivery
position the carrier is subjected to a considerable decele-
ration.
Thanks to the drastic deceleration of the carrier
inherent in the casting mechanism chosen a simpler damper
operating as a stop will suffise and/or the lifetime of the
damper is appreciably prolonged. By correctly proportionina
the casting mechanism the abutment may even be fully dispensed
with. This means by the omission of a damper a considerable
saving and, in addition, a prolongation of the lifetime of the
casting mechanism because it is subjected to a considerably
lesser extent to shocks.
When the carrier is guided by means of two guiding
arms each being pivotable on the one hand about fixed axes with
respect to a frame and on the other hand about pivotal axes
with respect to the carrier, the carrier is prevented from
disengaging the slice prematurely during its pivotal movement.
The casting mechanism is preferably driven by an
electric brake motor.
The aforesaid and further features of the invention
will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to a
drawing.
The drawing schematically shows in
Fig.1 a side elevation of a device for moulding bricks
in accordance with the invention,
Fig.2 on an enlarged scale detail II of Fig.1,
Fig.3 an enlarged, perspective view of detail III of
Fi~.2,
Fig.4 an enlarged side elevation of detail III of
Fig.2,
Fig.5 on a further enlarged scale a further schematic
view of de-tail III of FigO2 and
Figs. 6 and 7 elevational views corresponding to
Figs.3 and 4 of a further device embodying the inven-tion.
The device 1 for moulding blanks 2 is mounted on a
frame 3, in which two rotors 4 are rotatably journalled for
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s-tep~ise intermi-ttently driving and guiding an endless chain
conveyor 5. The chain conveyor 5 carries a plurality of endless
sequences of moulding troughs 6, having bottoms 8 pushed
outwards by springs 7 and being auided by means of guide rollers
9 along rails 10. The device furthermore comprises a clay
reservoir 11, whose delivery means 12 for conducting away a
strand of clay 13 consis-t of two rollers 14 and a reciprocatorily
pivoting pressing member 15. The device furthermore comprises
a slice cutter 16,
a sprinkler 17 with a fixed sprinkling grating 18
and a conveyor 19 collecting the sprinkled material,
a slice conveyor 20 comprising two transport gratings
21 and 22 and
a casting device 23 comprising a carrier 25.
The carrier 25 has the shape of a comb having teeth
formed by a sequence of grating rods 26 provided on the
carrying side with extensions 27. The carrier 25 is coupled
with a casting mechanism 24, which periodically reciprocates
the carrier 25 between a receiving position indicated by solid0 lines in Fig.2 and a deLivery posi-tion indicated by broken lines in Fig.2.
The device 1 is operating stepwise and its elements
are periodically operating at each processing station with the
frequency of the stepwise movement of the chain conveyor 5.
Thus a slice conveyor support 28 is moved up and down and a
slide 29 is guided with respect to the support 2~ and reci-
procated in the direction of the arrow 30 so that the gratings
21 and 22 carried by the slide 29 pass along -the circulation
tracks 31, the grating 21 picking the cut slices 32 from a
comb grating 33 and depositing it on the fixed sprinkling
grating 18O The comb grating 33 pivots intermittently about a
shaft 60 by means of pivotin~ arms 63. The sand 3~ falling from
the sprinkler 17 drops partly on the slices 32 and partly on
the sand collecting member 19. The sprinkled slices 32 are
-aken by the transport grating 22 from the sprinkling grating
18 and deposited on the carrier 25 being in its receiving
position. The casting device 23 casts these slices 32 into -the
moulding -troughs 5. By means of a pressing mechanism 35 the
moulding troughs 6 are filled up and pressed to form ~he brick
blanks 2. From a store 37 drying plates 36 are deposited on
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the moulding troughs 6. Then the drying plates 36 with the
brick blanks 2 carried thereby are brought to a reversing
place oE the endless conveyor 5 onto a conveyor 38 and trans-
ported to a drying furnade.
The carrier 25 of the casting device 23 of Fig.3, as
a common carrier of a plurality of clay slices 32, has a large
width and comprises, distributed along i-ts lenyth, a plurality
of elements of the casting mechanism 24. The casting device 23
is driven from both sides of the device 1 by a common shaft 39,
which is driven through a rope drive 40 and a reduction
transmission 45, for example, by a periodically energized brake
motor 41, the rotor 42 of which, when energized, is discoupled
against spring action of a spring 43 from a brake 44 and is
brought into engagement with the brike 44 immediately upon
de-energization by said spring 43 so that the drive of the
casting device 23 is stopped.
The de-energization is actuated by a sensor switch 61
responding to a cam disc 62 of the shaft 39. Driving cranks
46 connected with the shaft 39 and rotating in the direction
of the arrow 48 cause a shaft 50 to rotate reciprocatorily
about a fixed a~is 57 via connecting rods 47 and driven cranks
49 and hence cause guiding arms 52 connected with the shaft 50
to pivot to and fro in the direction of the arrows 51. Guiding
arms 54 pivotable about fixed axes 53 with respect to frame 3
and journalled in consoles are connected with the carrier 25
so as to be pivotable about the pivotal axis 56. The guiding
arms 52 pivotally engage the carrier 25 in the pivotal axis
58. The pivotal axes 56 and 58 and the fixed axes 53 and 57
are parallel to one another.
The relative positions of the fixed axes 53 and 57
and the pivotal axes 56 and 58 and the length of the guiding
arms 52 and 54 are shown in proportion in Fig.4 and are chosen
so that the casting mechanism 24 can drive and guide the
carrier 25 in a manner such that during its approach of the
delivery position the carrier 25 is subjected to a considerable,
preferably,drastic, deceleration. This is illustrated in Fig.5
in which with equal arc distances a covered by the crank 46
during the approach of the delivery position the pivotal axis
58 covers a graudally smaller arc distance b. Likewise the
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centre m of the grating rods 26 then covers an abruptly reduced
distance c, which is indica-tive of the then occurring drastic
~eceleration, as a resul-t of which the clay slic2s 32 are
ejected from the carrier 25. This is a result of the fact that
-the anyle of shear d between the crank 49 and -the connecting
rod 47 is then small. An angle of shear d even smaller than
that shown enhances the deceleration. The angle of shear (f)
between the crank 46 and the connecting rod 47 is then about
180 at the lower so-called dead poin-t. Abutment ~etween the
carrier 25 on the one hand and the frame 3 on the other is now
no longer absolutely necessary. If desired, dampers 59 may be
used as is shown in the variant of Figs.6 and 7. However as
shown in Figs.1 to 5 the casting mechanism 24 preferably per-
forms a continuous movement without jolts for moving the carrier
25 towards and away from the delivery position.
Co~lnterweights 60 ensure balancing oE the casting
mechanism 24. If should be noted that the casting mechanism 24
is proportioned so that on its path from the receiving position
up to the achievement of its turn-over the carrier 25 is
constantly accelerated so that the slices 32 do not yet tend
to disengage the carrier 25. Only after the turn-over of the
carrier 25 the deceleration sets in.Furthermore the casting
mechanism is proportioned so that the grating rods 26 move
substantially vertically downwards during the last part of the
casting movement and in a substantially horizontal position.
